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Montcalm commissioners agree on approach to county wage study, direct controller to produce final proposal
Summary
After extended debate over a county wage study, Montcalm commissioners agreed to use the wage-study column representing comparables' average plus 1% as a baseline, approved a set of preliminary position-level adjustments, and directed the county controller to compile final cost totals for approval at a future meeting.
The Montcalm County Board of Commissioners spent much of its Jan. 13 meeting debating a county wage study and recommended pay adjustments for elected officials, department heads and selected deputies.
After more than two hours of discussion, the board reached a working consensus to use the study column that represents the 14-county average plus 1% as their baseline, and to task County Controller Brenda (surname not specified in the transcript) with compiling precise dollar totals and a formal proposal for approval at the board's next meeting.
Commissioners reviewed a spreadsheet of multiple pay scenarios and compared Montcalm salaries to the…
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